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Mainline theologians have been men as we are men. They can have revelations from God or they can make their own mistakes, like all the rest of us mere humans. Why would it be wrong to say that Jesus spent time in hell when he came here and lived in flesh as a man subject to all of the...

Indeed yes: "And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh." Ecc 12:12 When the books [including the Bible] remain dead they are as per the verse I quoted above, but Jesus is the Book, the Word of God: "And the...

I believe that we do, but to most people it remains mostly an indecipherable parable and so they often give out incorrect information from it. For some it is less than that. For some it is certainly more than that. God can give anyone all that is needed without any book, but as He chose to...

Ah yes, all of us then with the exception of anyone who has completely overcome sin. Are there any? I suspect that there are, but I, not yet being among them, and many others likely would not know them if we were to see them. Are our eyes improving?

Of course in one sense you would be right since we do not live in that era, but in another just about all, if not all, that we find in the NT also existed in the OT even if only as types of shadows of the new. Sometime the examples in the OT show us how to live or how not to live in order to...

Perhaps then he effectively had all of the devil(s) in him. Are there any around today similarly afflicted? What are they missing? Or what do they have?

You mean we have not done so yet? To hear some talk on here, it would certainly seem so.

Convictions, yes, from the right place. Do not some people get convicted by or for the wrong things?

Can a person be unhappy and still have joy?

Your questions, in the particular the words highlighted in blue, remind me of a thought brought to me on another forum with regard to the Lion and/or the Lamb as mentioned in these verses: "And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon...

Yes, but is that such a good thing? After reading and studying a person should have some Life and with Life there should be understanding: "And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh." Ecc 12:12 A parrot...

Yes, I really do know. Dozens of times over the years on this forum, on other forums and in church houses, I have thought to myself I am finished with this. These people don't appreciate God so forget them... and then the selfish part: They don't appreciate me. Even though at times I find...

Certainly we live in a miracle, but how many are able to see it? Of those who can see it, how many are anxious to or even willing to acknowledge it? We all get caught up in the "fun" parts and even when known the important parts get at best put on the back burner for... perhaps ...later. I am...

Of course, my wife knows about it. I have mentioned it to my children [now in their 40's] but no one has expressed an interest. Perhaps when I am gone they will. I used to keep a printed copy but it got too big for that especially since I periodically add to it. I keep copies of it on each...

You have said it!

Global wisdom or tradition that was inspired by whom and then adapted by whom? Ultimately, of course, God, but every person looking backward in his own history as a man in family or tribe or group came would eventually see [if he could see] a place [Eden] where men actually conversed with God...

Of course, I haven't visited all of the various churches [buildings with a group of people within supposedly to please God] even in my local community, but up until a few years ago I used to regularly visit many. Even as a visitor I always carried my Bible with me. In some of those "churches"...

It is not precisely the verse you recall but I do remember what Daniel did with regard to man's law when it conflicted with his relationship with God: "All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a...

You are too quick to lump together everyone not on what you see as your side. Actually, I agree that Jesus and His Church are inseparable. The Church is the Body and of course the Body and the Head will be always connected. The trouble is that being part of the Body of Christ requires more than...

Even so. I cannot quote him, but he said in effect that he was very pleased with Christ. It was Christians who turned him away from Christianity.